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There is a college in Oxford dating back to 1379 which has the audacity of being called, New College. Travelling in the UK, one has a sense of one’s own mortality being surrounded by buildings 700 or even more years old. In Australia, 100 is quite an achievement and 150 is remarkable since white settlement […]

Chappo died at age 82 in November, 2012.  He was a friend to many, an excellent preacher, an able theologian, but first and foremost, he was a fine evangelist. In 1969, John became the Director of the Anglican Department of Evangelism in Sydney.  This was universally known as the ‘Department of Evangelism’, for though it

The Sermon on the Mount is not a list of duties for us to tick off, rather they are the qualities which have God’s tick of approval, these are the ways His redeemed are to live. ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied‘. (Matthew5:6) God’s people have a

I have had punctuality bred into me, even now, if I am meeting my sisters, I know they will be at least 10 minutes early and sometimes I am even earlier. Some people are habitually late, I am habitually early. Oscar Wilde said that he was always late on principle, the principle being that punctuality

Wee Waa’s boom years were the mid 1960’s to the mid 1980’s, there was plenty of water, and cotton, as an Australian industry, was in its infancy. American farmers led by Paul Kahl and Frank Hadley, two Christian men from California, were instrumental in establishing the industry, centred on Wee Waa. Wee Waa Presbyterian was

We only watch quality TV at our place and so, were saddened at the concluding of the series, ‘Im a celebrity get me out of here’. We became involved in the lives of the celebrities and especially enjoyed the interplay between hosts, Julia Morris and Chris Brown. In one episode, celebrity Shane Warne had an

I live in Sydney, a beautiful city, what a pleasure to show friends from overseas around the harbour, the beaches and the mountains. And yet, like all believers, my home is the eternal city which is above. The writer of the Hebrews reminds his readers “For here we do not have an enduring city, but

On Friday 12 February, at the invitation of the Australian Christian Lobby, I joined a delegation to meet Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, in his Sydney office.  It was agreed that we confine our remarks to the issue of the plebiscite regarding single gender marriage which will be held, in the event of a coalition victory,

I am starting 2016 preaching at a conference called Sweatcon, being held in the south western suburbs of Sydney. The theme of the conference is, Discipleship in Mission and I will be speaking on Jesus’ answer to the fourth, of the four most fundamental questions of life: • Where did I come from?• Where am

In October, 2017 we will celebrate the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther’s attachment of his 95 theses for debate, to the large doors of Wittenberg Cathedral in Germany. Luther, an Augustinian monk, had felt the gates of paradise open to him when he understood Romans 1:17 the righteousness of God as that righteousness which He